A new Homeland Security document that
received little attention during last week's swine flu coverage shockingly
lists the "alternative media" with other radical extremist
groups and implies that people who disagree with the mass media's version
of events are potential domestic terrorists.

The "official use only" document
is entitled "Domestic Extremism Lexicon" and was released
on March 26, two weeks before the infamous "right-wing extremists"
report that generated so much media attention throughout April.

According
to World Net Daily, the DHS document was almost immediately rescinded,
but the groups listed alongside Neo-Nazis, Aryan prison gangs and black
power extremists again prove that the federal government is targeting
American citizens who are merely knowledgeable about their rights and
up on current issues as potential domestic terrorists to be treated
as a "threat" to law enforcement.

"(U//FOUO) Homeland Security Reference
Aids—prepared by the DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)—provide
baseline information on a variety of homeland security issues. This
product is one in a series of reference aids designed to provide operational
and intelligence advice and assistance to other elements of DHS, as
well as state, local, and regional fusions centers. DHS/I&A intends
this background information to assist federal, state, local, and tribal
homeland security and law enforcement officials in conducting analytic
activities. This product provides definitions for key terms and phrases
that often appear in DHS analysis that addresses the nature and scope
of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the United
States. Definitions were derived from a variety of open source materials
and unclassified information, then further developed during facilitated
workshops with DHS intelligence analysts knowledgeable about domestic,
non-Islamic extremism in the United States."

(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)

In the same breath as radical Cuban Communists, the "decentralized
terrorist movement," "lone terrorists," "racist
skinheads" and the Mexican separatist movement, we find an entry
for "alternative media," alongside the blurb, "a term
used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for
interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those
presented in mass media products and outlets."

That's right folks - the federal government
is training its enforcers that people who don't believe everything they
see on Fox News, CNN or read in the New York Times are to be treated
as a "threat" and a potential violent domestic terrorist.

Apparently it's not enough to treat
Ron Paul supporters, people who fly U.S. flags or people who are able
to accurately recite the Bill of Rights as potential mass killers, now
anyone who merely questions what is reported by the corporate media
is also a danger, according to the federal government.

The document also lists people who oppose
abortion, people who oppose giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants
and states that they "can be broadly divided into those who are
primarily hate-oriented, and those who are mainly antigovernment and
reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority. This
term also may refer to rightwing extremist movements that are dedicated
to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."

The document also mentions the "patriot
movement" and states that it "primarily comprises (of) violent
antigovernment groups."

As we have documented for years, we
haven't yet come across a violent member of the "patriot movement"
who wasn't also a federal provocateur or at least someone being radicalized
by the feds - Timothy McVeigh being a prime example.

The conclusion at the foot of the document
encourages recipients in law enforcement to "report information
concerning suspicious or criminal activity to DHS and the FBI."
So now according to the feds, running a news website that isn't owned
by General Electric or Rupert Murdoch is suspicious and potentially
criminal.

As
we reported last month, another recent Department of Homeland Security
intelligence assessment equates gun owners with violent terrorists and
states that radical extremists are "stockpiling" weapons in
fear of an Obama administration gun ban.

The document was just the latest in
a long sordid line of training manuals in which the federal government
characterizes millions of American citizens as potentially violent terrorists
who are a threat to law enforcement.

As we have exhaustively documented with
the MIAC
report and a whole host of others, the federal government apparently
has very little concern for any perceived terrorist threat to America
coming from the MIddle East or Al-Qaeda cells within the country, and
indeed if any such threat existed we are only in more danger, because
the feds have been busy training law enforcement that law-abiding American
citizens who exercise their legal right to purchase firearms or who
exercise their first amendment right to discuss politics or run websites,
are potential terrorists who want to instigate a violent revolution.